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The Most Awful Right Wing Tweet About California's Water Shortage

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Reality Based Steve4/01/2015 7:07:30 pm PDT

re: #72 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

there does seem to be some truly unhealthy not too mention gross obsession in the “conservative” ranks. check out this classic

Why is discrimination bad? Throughout 10,000 years of recorded history men have reserved the right to associate and partner with like-minded fellows — suddenly we’ve decided all those previous generations were wrong and our contemporary Wisdom of the Ages says a black guy MUST serve the KKK in his diner, and a Baptist MUST serve guys who like it up the Chocolate Starfish.

Who put those heathens in charge of the asylum and why are we granting them participation in our conservative dialogue?!?

i must say there is something ill in the intensity of this visualisation

The problem is that to the extreme right the right to free association trumps all other rights, including the rights of others not to be discriminated against. Many would gladly go back to the days of “We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone” in a heartbeat. Most, if not all of them, if they were honest, would also say that “Brown v Board of Edu”, “Shepard v Texas”“Lawrence vs. Texas” thanks for the correction downthread and “Loving v. Virginia” were all bad decisions that infringed on individual rights.